Nien Cheng Quotes

I Supposed The Red Guards Had Enjoyed Themselves. Is It Not True That We All Possess Some Destructive Tendencies In Our Nature? The Veneer Of Civilization Is Very Thin. Underneath Lurks The Animal In Each Of Us. If I Were Young And Had Had A Working Class Background, If I Had Been Brought Up To Worship Mao And Taught To Believe Him Infalliable, Would I Not Have Behaved Exactly As The Red Guards Had Done?
~79

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